I protest that I have still something of my old self.' 'That means you are rather proud than ashamed.

How' long,' she went on to ask, lowering her eyes, 'is the British House of Commons likely to sit ?' 'Probably the talk will hold out for some seven or eight weeks longer.' 'May I sing the two remaining engagements, if I take no more after those ?' 'To be sure, you must.

Let it stand so, then.' She fell back into her brooding.
'Now I, too, have something to ask,' she said, after a short silence.
'Whatever you ask is already granted.' 'Don't be too hasty.

It's more than you think.' 'Well ?' 'I want you to give me some work to do for you--to let me come and sit with you in your study some mornings and 'write things for you.' Wilfrid laughed cheerily.
'If I had a regard for my dignity,' he said, 'I certainly shouldn't let you.

What will become of my pretence of work when you are let into the secrets?
But come, by all means.